A beautiful poem written in the classical tradition. However the muse list is varied according to historical periods and even myths were often regional with three or four different common versions. My favourite dramatist, Euripides, even added another form of drama to comedy and tragedy, tragic-comedy because he realized life was like that.
There are often agreed to be three original muses, Aoide (song or voice) , Melete (practice or memory) and Calliope (epic poetry or beautiful voice) . Mnene and Arche are also mentioned.
At Delphi another three muses were Nete, Meser and Hypate, the three cords of the lyre. They were also called Cephisso, Apollonis and Borysthenis at other locations. Clio, Erato and Polymia are three more from Indo-European.
If we call the Ancient Greeks the Helenes as they called themselves, and remember there were three main ethnic divisions, Illyrians Achaean and Aeolian if I remember correctly and the Ionian dialect. And that they had some had trouble understanding each other in Troy, and then bring in Proto Indo-European and the theoretical Dorian Invasion of Greece, in three diachronic waves, which replaced the mother Gods, things are starting to get complicated.
There was never only one invasion into Ancient Greece. The sea people, the possible Anatolian origin of the Pelasgian language, the invasions of llyrians like the Bryges. Linear A and B, later Greek dialects, and so little extant on pottery and surviving in later records, due to wars and limitations of scribal culture, means our knowledge of even varied names of muses in mythology is limited.
Wheatley has read the classics well, it was obvious in her last poem. Aurora is the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and in Latin poetry. Eos is the comparable Greek goddess and Aurora is the Latin word for dawn. An example of simple Greek Roman classical mixing. Luckily we do not need to know any of that to enjoy this wonderful poem.(Report)Reply

ALERT! Hear the bells that go ting-a-ling-a-ling? They sound the muse alert for all poets and wannabees who need their help! Them old Greeks had a name for each and everyone! Names of each and their realms of interest are as follows: Calliope (epic poetry) , Clio (history) , Erato (music and love poetry) , Euterpe (music) , Melpomene (tragedy) , Polyhymnia (sacred poetry) , Terpsichore (choral dance and song) , Thalia (comedy) , and Urania (astronomy) . Count 'em - nine in all!

Just goes to show that an eighteenth century slave mastered the details of her vocation, right? Modern wannabees can chortle and compare their stuff to Miss Wheatley's all day and into the night and they still fall short! You go, girl!(Report)Reply

Another chance of reading Phillis Wheatley's poem... enjoying the bliss of Morning worshipping Aurora in the sorrounding of freshened nature...this is a four lined poem I guess....
'In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.'